Colerain Twp. Fire Department remembers 2 fallen firefighters 13 years after their deaths
Colerain Twp. Fire Department honors fallen firefighers By Ken Brown | April 4, 2021 at 3:23 PM EDT - Updated April 4 at 10:26 PM
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (FOX19) -The Colerain Township Fire Department is remembering two firefighters who lost their lives 13 years ago Sunday.
Capt. Robin Broxterman and firefighter Brian Schira fell through the floor and into the basement of a fiery home on Squirrels Nest Lane on April 4, 2008, while trying to put out the blaze.
The gravity of what happened inside the home weighed heavy on the firefighters and witnesses.
“It was just unbelievable. There was just a silence and just a sadness I’ve never seen,” a neighbor Silvia Tilton Smith said in a 2008 interview with FOX19 NOW.
Preserving greenspace on the Mills Lawn Elementary School property and developing a desirable facilities plan for the local schools are not mutually exclusive goals, say a group of residents calling for a portion of the Mills Lawn grounds to be set aside as a permanent community park.
The area of interest, on the western side of the nine-acre school property, is undeveloped, and the members of Preserve Mills Lawn Greenspace, which was formed last year, want to keep it that way.
The group’s effort to preserve approximately five acres at the center of town as greenspace has intensified in recent months as the Yellow Springs School district undertakes a facilities master planning process that could affect the future of local public school properties.
During a special work session of the Yellow Springs school board, conducted online Saturday morning, March 6, the district superintendent said she is working on a plan to increase students’ in-person classroom time to near pre-pandemic levels.
The local schools, which began the academic year with 100% online instruction, went to a “hybrid” model combining online and in-person classes effective March 1, with elementary school students in their building two half days a week, and middle and high school students attending in-person classes two full days a week.
Now, the superintendent is talking about bringing everyone into their buildings for at least four full days a week beginning in April.
Where should the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, put its focus and energy in the coming year, and what are appropriate matters for the group to consider?
Members of the quasi-governmental economic development group spent the majority of their last regular meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 2, discussing the organization’s purposes and goals as well as expectations for the content of group discussions.
The goalsetting was a planned part of the agenda, but the conversation about expectations was added as “new business,” in response to a discussion during the January meeting in which Marianne MacQueen made comments deemed inappropriate by other YSDC members.
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